PERKEMBANGANPENGATURANATASFUNGSI PENGAWASAN DEWANPERWAKILAN RAKYATREPUBLIK INDONESIA

Parliament has three functions which are consisted of legislation, budgets, and oversight These three functions are stated on the Constitution, the Act and the Rules of Procedure of Parliament. This study is aimed to examine the development of regulation related to Parliament oversight. The examination would be focused on legal politics which underly on its formation and implementation. This is a normative law research which uses a descriptive explorative method. The emphasis would be addressed on aspects of legal history and comparative law. In further, it would compare all the regulation which is applied now and which has been applied before. According to this research, the oversight regulation of the Parliament has been changed (amendement) since the new order until now. Substantial changes of oversight regulations impact on oversight functions. The change occurred for four times in 1969, 1999, 2003, and 2009. It could be happened because of the amendment of Organization and the Position of Representative Institutions Act. In every amendment, the acts strengthen the oversight functions, such as add the duties, authority, and the rights. It also adds obligations to the Parliament to strengthen its oversight function. All of these acts rule the Parliament to oversight the executive regarding to the implementation of acts, budget and government policy. These development, indicate a legal political trends which strengthening of the Parliament oversight function. It can be seen from the extension of oversight right, such as sub poena rights, reduction of the president's prerogative, addition of parliament body, strengthen of the individual members rights. Indeed, all of these trends rise after the amendment of the 1945 Constitution